Republicans Have Turned On Ted Cruz

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Uh-oh, without even knowing how he did it, because that is what happens when you wander through the monkeyhouse blindfolded, Tea Party fave-rave Tailgunner Ted Cruz has gotten himself crossways with his fellow nutballs in the House because he has declined to produce magic sparkle ponies from out of his arse.

The House outrage stems directly from a statement from Cruz and fellow GOP stalwarts against Obamacare in the Senate, Marco Rubio and Mike Lee. In it, Cruz said Senate Republicans simply don't have the votes necessary to keep defunding language in the continuing resolution to fund the government after Oct. 1. Republicans have been attempting to push a bill that would fund the rest of the government while defunding the health care law, a bill Democrats have vowed to fight.

Tailgunner Ted is talking common sense -- and simple math -- here. He is clearly not...of the body.

The reaction from House Republicans and senior GOP leadership aides to Cruz's latest statement on the matter was swift and angry, both about Cruz's lack of confidence in a vote and his urging of the House to "stand firm." "They said nothing is impossible if you fight hard enough, and the minute the House announces the vote, they give up the fight? It's crazy," one senior GOP leadership aide told CNN. "They should walk the walk," the aide said, predicting it would backfire on the conservative senators. Another senior GOP leadership aide took a shot at Cruz declining to say whether he would filibuster the bill, telling CNN, "It is disappointing to see that Wendy Davis has more balls than Ted Cruz," in reference to the state senate Democrat who filibustered an abortion bill in the Texas legislature over the summer.

Clearly, what they want is for Cruz to get up and talk and, through his gilded rhetoric, as demonstrated before audiences of enraptured amateur nutballs across the land, get enough Democrats to submarine their own president and give the House Republicans the glorious victory they thought they'd won in the 2010 midterms. There's no reasoning with this kind of thing. We are all merely spectators as the American government is turned by crazy people into Saturday night at a dirt-track speedway in Iowa, and we all sit there and wait for the big pile-up in the far turn.